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Capitalism-how it works

ANTI-capitalist protests seem to be talked about all the time these days. I was down at Trafalgar Square recently for the May Day demonstration and heard a hot dog seller...

Long hours, low pay-we've had enough

FEELINGS ARE running high amongst workers in higher education over pay. That anger was shown when delegates at the recent UNISON higher education conference supported our branch's motion...

Rich crooks keep hold of the loot

CROOKED, LYING former Tory MP Jonathan Aitken has done quite well out of declaring himself bankrupt...

Things they say

SOMETHING very strange is happening to Tony Blair's government. It is undeniably a slavishly pro-business government...

Anti-deportation

PARVAIZ Akhtar Asim is a political refugee from Pakistan threatened with deportation. Parvaiz was president of the Aapka (socialist) group in the Punjabi district Jhellum...

Shaming Tesco over 'asylo' rip off

A FIGHTBACK is starting across Britain at Tory leader William Hague's attacks on asylum seekers...

800m leaps

THE GOVERNMENT'S claims about the safety of genetically modified crops were demolished last week...

New-style branches

THE Socialist Workers Party is in the process of a major reorganisation of its local branches...

Schools

TEACHERS IN Sheffield have taken an important step forward in a battle against redundancies resulting from a "Fresh Start" at Herries School...

Stop deadly incinerators

LEAKED documents reveal the danger of highly toxic dioxins produced from burning waste at incinerator plants...

This man is a lying racist crook

This man is a lying racist crook so why do these men follow his policies? Join the campaign to defend asylum seekers - see page 3...

AUT

THE ASSOCIATION of University Teachers summer conference met in Eastbourne last week against a backdrop of threatened compulsory redundancies in many universities...

Break those chains

BILL Clinton's favourite novelist-that is how black American writer Walter Mosley is portrayed in the media....

In brief

TEXTILE firm Courtaulds is to slash more than 600 jobs at three of its factories. The company wants to axe factories in Bolsover in Derbyshire and Wishaw in Lanarkshire, Scotland...

Scottish Power

WORKERS at Scottish Power, members of the AEEU, have voted overwhelmingly for strike action...

Fury against Ford

The number of Socialist Worker workplace sales and the number of papers sold are both increasing.

Jobs threat

NEW LABOUR in Scotland has caved in to the bigots who want to keep Section 28, the anti-gay clause which forbids the "promotion" of homosexuality...

Can congestion charges work?

WARNING signals about global warming "are flashing red". "The world is still proceeding at a reckless pace towards disaster." So said the UK Round Table on Sustainable Development last week...